Saturday, March 12, 2011

1.10 Questions- Australia's Natural Resources

1. Resources are any materials that are able to be used by humans.

2. Renewable sources are sources that can be reused over and over again. Non renewable sources are things that cannot be used over and over again.

3. A renewable resource can become non-renewable through over-exploitation.

4. Soil is a vital resource as it is the basis for Australia's successful agricultural industries and influential in the water cycle.

5. The cultivation of forest trees.

6. 164.4 million hectares

7. They are very important as they are worth more than $2 billion dollars annually as they are based on high level species of seafood.

8. They have set up limits on how much people can fish in Australian waters.

9. Uranium

10. Due to improved prospecting and extraction technologies.

11. Australia's forest resources are vast with major exports of wood every year and a billion dollar industry which is thriving.

12. As it is a valuable power source but also helps to create nuclear weapons.

13. They are of great significance on a national and global scale.

14.It impacts the landscape dramatically because it makes the land scape look like a big hole with barren land and nothing around it. As it could affect the flora and fauna around it with the high traces of radiation.

15. The location of Australia's fishing line is many kilometres around the coast of Australia and around its many islands and vast Great Barrier Reef.

16. a) There are many mines and former mines in the Northern Territory and South Australia but the deposit or prospect mine are scattered around Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland.
b) Radium Hill
c) Ranger

17.







18. a)
 i. Just under $300 million
ii. Around $250 million
iii. Around $560 million

b) $333.8 million
c) When Australia first started exporting the value was very high but it then dropped over a certain period of time but has now picked up and growing stronger than when it first started.

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